Courtesy of two leaked benchmarks at Geekbench, we have the first test results of Nvidia’s budget RTX 5060 Ti, which is rumored to hit shelves on April 16, next week. The tests cover the standard OpenCL and Vulkan APIs and were likely inadvertently made public by a reviewer or tester. In summary, the RTX 5060 Ti demonstrates an up to 14% performance lead over its Ada Lovelace equivalent based on these early test results. While this isn’t an awe-inspiring achievement, let’s wait for detailed gaming tests from the Tom’s Hardware labs, and then weigh the MSRP, real-world prices, and availability.
Early last month, renowned leaker Kopite spilled the beans on the specifications of the RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 family of GPUs. There isn’t much to write home about these GPUs except for the standard RTX 5060, which reportedly sees a 25% bump in the shader count, amounting to an estimated 30% performance bump when you also factor in the switch to GDDR7. But don’t hold your breath if you expect more than 8GB of VRAM.
The RTX 5060 Ti is said to have two versions with 8GB/16GB of video memory, similar to the last-gen RTX 4060 Ti, which also came in two flavors. Both the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB and 16GB reportedly share the same GPU core, built on GB206-300-A1 with 4,608 CUDA cores (36 SMs). The bus width is confined to 128 bits, so the 16GB version employs its GDDR7 ICs in clamshell mode.
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The test setup used for the benchmarks features the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB alongside AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D partnered by 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory. The GPU details in the benchmark further corroborate Kopite’s data. For the duration of the benchmark, the GPU hit a peak of 2.64 GHz, but expect reference clocks to be lower, as we’ve seen with other Blackwell cards.